Washington, D.C. – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today published an op-ed in Newsweek calling on President Trump to fire Secretary Kennedy as the Measles continues to spread across the country.

Senator Blunt Rochester’s full op-ed can be found here. A key excerpt is below.

“History shows us that the Trump administration once supported vaccinations. They put time and money behind the creation of scientific research into life-saving vaccines. Flu seasons were normal and vaccination rates remained high. Now, measles, a vaccine-preventable disease, is spreading across America at a rate we haven’t seen since 1991, and we have experienced one of the worst flu seasons in 15 years.

“What changed? An administration that once supported science-based vaccination has elevated an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist to the highest public health office in the nation—Robert F. Kennedy Jr… A dangerous disease of misinformation has corrupted the White House, and the president is the only person who has the cure: Fire Kennedy.”